First Aid for Schools and Clubs

First Aid for Life specialises in teaching first aid for schools and clubs and empowering young people with the skills to help in an emergency. We routinely work with schools, youth groups, guides, scouts and associated groups to train young people to keep each other safe and to understand how to help if faced with a medical emergency.

In addition to our practical courses, we have online first aid training www.onlinefirstaid.com where people can learn vital skills and extend their first aid knowledge on their smart phones and mobile devices.

How First Aid can augment the curriculum

Early Years Foundation Stage

Early learning goals:

Personal, social and emotional development

Communication, language and literacy

Problem solving

Physical development.

Key stage 1

PSHE/Citizenship

3a – How to make simple choices that improve health and wellbeing

3b – To maintain personal hygiene

3c – How some diseases spread and can be controlled

3e – The names of the main parts of the body

3f – All household products, including medicines, can be harmful if not used properly

3g – Rules for, and ways of, keeping safe, including basic road safety, and about people who can help them to stay safe.

Science

Health and safety.

Key stage 2

PSHE/Citizenship

3b – That bacteria and viruses can affect health and that following simple, safe routines can reduce their spread

3d – Which commonly available substances and drugs are legal and illegal, their effects and risks

3e – Recognising risks in different situations and deciding how to behave responsibly, including sensible road use, and judging what kind of physical contact is acceptable or unacceptable

3g – School rules about health and safety, basic emergency aid procedures and where to get help.

Science

Sc2 2c – Circulation: the heart acts as a pump to circulate the blood through vessels around the body, including through the lungs

Sc2 2e – Movement: humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles to support and protect their bodies and help them to move

Sc2 2g – Health: the effects on the human body of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, and how these relate to personal health

Health and safety: recognising that there are hazards in living things, materials and physical processes. Assessing risks and taking action to reduce risks to themselves and others.

Physical Education

4d – Why wearing appropriate clothing and being hygienic is good for their health and safety.

Key stage 3

PSHE: Personal wellbeing

3g – Ways of recognising and reducing risk, minimising harm and getting help in emergency and risky situations

3h – Knowledge of basic first aid.

Science

2.1b – Practical and enquiry skills: assessing risk and working safely in the laboratory, field and workplace

3.3a – Organisms, behaviour and health: conception, growth, development, behaviour and health can be affected by diet, drugs and disease.

Physical education

2.2d – Recognising hazards and making decisions about how to control any risks to themselves and others.

Key stage 4

PSHE: Personal wellbeing

2.2a – Using knowledge and understanding to make informed choices about safety, health and wellbeing, evaluating personal choices and making changes if necessary

2.2c – Assessing and managing risk in personal choices and situations, minimising harm in risky situations and demonstrating how to help others to do so

3e – Where and how to obtain health information: how to recognise and follow health and safety procedures; ways of reducing risk and minimising harm in risky situations; how to find sources of emergency help; how to use basic and emergency first aid.

Physical Education

2.2d – Organising and managing the environment they are working in to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of themselves and others.

Science

5e – Organisms and Health: human health is affected by a range of environmental and inherited factors, by the use and misuse of drugs and by medical treatments.

Administering first aid safely, promptly and effectively to a casualty who:

is choking

is bleeding

is in shock.

Administering first aid safely, promptly and effectively to an unconscious casualty

Providing appropriate first aid for minor injuries

Reporting accidents in the appropriate manner.

First Aid is also a vital skill for young people undertaking their Duke of Edinburgh Awards, working towards Sports Leadership and coaching qualifications and for babysitting.

It is also a life-saving skill to have as young people begin to experiment with alcohol and stretch boundaries – teenagers are definitely safer and more aware of potential risks, once they have joined one of our courses.

The courses are practical, engaging and fun and prove extremely popular.

My son who will be 16 in January would like to learn first aid as part of his DoE training. there might be other kids in his school interested in doing it. could you let me know how big a group would need to be for you to put on a course, how long it would run for and how much it would cost please.
many thanks

Dear Emma, i am very happy to note here that you offer courses for the DofE – my daughter will soon start at silver level. i would be grateful for all details by email, thank you. Kind regards, Mathilde

I wouldbe interested in organising a private First Aid course for a group of 12 year old. Could you let me know if this is something you can do and if so what would be the format, content and cost please? Thsnk you.

Dear Kafayat,
Thank you for your message. We will send through all the booking information direct to your email address and would love to run a first aid training for your son and his friends. We also have scheduled courses in London and our next teenage course is on WEdnesday 14th February and is suitable for children from 8 upwards.
Best wishes
Emma

Thank you very much for your enquiry. Please let us know if you have any specific dates? Please could you email your enquiry through to emma@firstaidforlife.org.uk and we will be able to send you through more details. Best wishes Emma